"The first Negro school in Pompano was a two room, wooden building located in the N.W. 400 block of Hammondville Road. One of its first teachers was Mrs. Annie Glass Johnson. This school was demolished by the storm of 1926, so classes were held in Psalters Temple A.M.E. Church which was located less than a block away. In 1928 Psalters Temple A.M.E. Church was destroyed by a tropical storm. It was rebuilt on a different site and is presently known as Bethel A.M.E. Church. Later on, a new two-story school was built on N.W. 6th Avenue for Negro students with Mrs. Blanche Boyd Ely serving as principal."

(excerpted from Mercerlene Alexander Rutledge, Historical Vignettes)